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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is really scary.  I work as a case manager with DC Medicaid.  School is extremely protective for thousands of DC kids--it gives them food, daily structure (and time away from the chaos at home) and in some cases keeps them away from actual physical harm. 
 
I have no idea what the council is thinking.  This is going to be devastating to many DC kids whose parents don't or can't have their kids' best interest at heart.  I know it's hard to imagine this but many parents make daily and long-term decisions that harm their kids.  We saw this in the pandemic--tons of kids who were not schooled at all because there was no-one in the home to login them on, there were many parents who sold the school-owned devices, etc.  And this was just the educational neglect (there is physical neglect, abuse, etc). [/quote]

A Council doing its job would have had child welfare experts like you testify. [/quote]

Exactly.  [/quote]

It wouldn’t even have been that hard. Just tee up child welfare experts, DCPS witness to talk about Relisha Rudd, DCPS witness to talk about how to file homeschool paperwork, and every single councilmember now has a well-supported and unassailable reason to amend this part of the bill. Lazy, lazy, lazy. [/quote]

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